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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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goji no chaimu
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What Are Conlangs?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Dreams of Space -...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Julius Caesar
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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The Mother of Rome
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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A Collection of...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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African History...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Summary of changes for May
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Summary of changes for September 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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There is no exit for dictators
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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